Oceania We are one, but we are many: the FF Oceania profile thread

There's a fair few of us floating around the place, but we all come from different places and it's difficult to get to know your fellow poster. So if you're from Australia or New Zealand (or Guam, if they ever show up ) tell us a bit about yourself here.


Name: Nathan

State/country: Victoria, Australia

Age: 20

Occupation: Student

Marital status: Unmarried

Physical description: About 180cm or 6 ft, short dark hair, greenish eyes, slim build

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: Either The Matrix, Austin Powers or possibly Blade Runner.

Favourite food: Pizza...mmm...

Why did you choose your user name? I would have gone with Hawk, because I've been using it since high school, but it was taken so I modified it a bit.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? About 9 years, but I only really started getting into it about 3 and a half years ago.

Feel free to add anything else you want to share with us.

 

Name: Melanie

State/country: Sydney, Australia

Age: 20

Occupation: Just about everything. Payments, officially.

Marital status: Unmarried but not single. That count?

Physical description: About 5'4"

Favourite SW movie: AotC

Favourite non-SW movie: FERRIS!! Oh, and The Princess Bride, Fight Club and X-Men 2

Favourite food: Chocolate

Why did you choose your user name? It was a character in a really bad story I thankfully never wrote.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? 6 years - since the SEs.

 

Name: Elliot "E" Press

State/country: Western Australia

Age: 16

Occupation: Student/running a small bussiness

Marital status: Hooking in

Physical description: dunno how tall i am... if u want a pic just ask

Favourite SW movie: AOTC

Favourite non-SW movie: Trainging Day, Saving Private Ryan and T2

Favourite food: chillie chicken on steamed rice

Why did you choose your user name? Was the original title for a film project i was working on

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? 14 years........ watchin it almost since i was born

 

Name: Lachlan

State/country: Victoria

Age: 18

Occupation: Arts Student - yes, I am a bum

Marital status: Tight

Physical description: Shortish

Favourite SW movie: ESB

Favourite non-SW movie: Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels

Favourite food: Curry and beer

Why did you choose your user name? *shrugs*

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? Not all that long... if at all. I'm here to troll mostly

 

Name: Kane

State/country: Victoria, Australia

Age: 18

Occupation: Bachelor of BioMedical Science.

Marital status: Whatever's on offer.

Physical description: About 6 foot 1, olive skinned, dark haired, green eyes, kinda crazy glint in left eye.

Favourite SW movie: Return of the Jedi.

Favourite non-SW movie: The City of Lost Children, Platoon, Bowling for Columbine.

Favourite food: Thai Green Chicken Curry, Peking Duck...anything with chicken is all good.

Why did you choose your user name? God was taken, and I liked Thrawn at that age (my Tim Zahn is cool!11 phase) and decided being his protege would be a good gig.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? Probably about 10 years, since my Aunt bought me Heir to the Empire and some crazy ol' movies became an entire other galaxy waiting to be explored....

 

Name: Jess

State/country: NSW, Australia

Age: 17

Occupation: In last yr of highschool

Marital status: Well, too young to be married, but I do have a boyfriend

Physical description: I'm about 5ft6 apparently, long red-brown hair, brown eyes

Favourite SW movie: Return of the Jedi.

Favourite non-SW movie: LotR, Amelie, Princess Bride, Swing just to name a few

Favourite food: Chocolate

Why did you choose your user name? In yr7 Detonating-Rabbit came up with the name "messicat" for me, and it stuck, and as this is a SW board I decided to add "kenobi" to the end of it, being a biiiig Obi-Wan fan (Ewan McGregor = ) It's all in lowercase for a reason. I refuse to accept it any other way.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? Since I asked my mum in an electronics store what SW was and she said she was a bad parent for not showing me sooner, sometime in about 96 we hired dodgy copies from the local video store and I was instantly hooked.

 

Name: David

State/country: SA, Australia

Age: 21

Occupation: Unemployed

Marital status: Single

Physical description: 196cm or 6 ft 7 inches, shaved head, green/grey/blue eyes (it depends on what colour they want to be), average build

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: The Rock

Favourite food: Pizza

Why did you choose your user name? Couldn't think of anything else.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? About 17 years

 

Name: Dan

State/country: Qld, Australia

Age: 25

Occupation: Student/ delivery driver

Marital status: Single

Physical description: 188cm, cropped brown hair, heavy build, hazel eyes.

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: Lord of the Rings

Favourite food: Pizza

Why did you choose your user name? I'd just finished reading the Wraith Squadron novels, and was enamoured with the "General Kargin" persona created for a spcial operation, so I altered the first letter. Nowadays, on other boards, I go by Jagdverband or a slight variation thereof.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? about 19 years.

 

Name: Paul.

State/country: New South Wales, Australia.

Age: 21.

Occupation: Student (and working casually in retail).

Marital status: Hey, c'mon, I'm only 21!

Physical description: About 5'7 (I think!), dark hair, brown eyes, and too slim for my liking. Me when I'm being a SW geek. Me when I'm not being a geek.

Favourite SW movie: The Empire Strikes Back.

Favourite non-SW movie: I've never had a satisfying answer for this question. Movies that stand out in my mind are Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Dogma, Pulp Fiction, and Fellowship Of The Ring.

Favourite food: Pizza, I guess. Anything but anchovies.

Why did you choose your user name? I chose it back when I first registered on the UBB JC forums (back in my TPM spoiler days). I wanted something that was a spin on a SW character's name, something that fans would get. Took me a while to figure out that a lot of the people on the forum didn't know what a barramundi was.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? Since 97. Special edition hype got me into it.

 

Name: Michael

State/country: Western Australia, Australia

Age: 29 (Christ, I'm the oldest replier to the thread... )

Occupation: Barrister & Solicitor

Marital status: Woefully single

Physical description: 188cm (6'4") No.4 cut dark brown hair, hazel eyes, ...er... stout build...

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: Lord of the Rings. (FOTR, TTT, or ROTK just on appearances... )

Favourite food: Burgers

Why did you choose your user name? I wanted "Braveheart" but that's already taken ... and I like to think I've got a good heart ...

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? All my life. Saw ESB at age 7. Have become fanatical since hanging around here...

 

Name: Damir

State/country: Victoria, Australia

Age: 16

Occupation: Student

Marital status: Take it as it comes...

Physical description: About 180cm or 6 ft, black-brown short hair, hazel eyes, slimish

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: Matrix series, Bowling for Columbine, and others I can't think of now

Favourite food: I like Pie

Why did you choose your user name? I'm original, what can I say?

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? Close to 5 years

 

Name: David

State/country: Victoria, Australia

Age: 17

Occupation: Student - Yr 12

Marital status: Single

Physical description: 5'10", red short hair, blue, pretty skinny.

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: Equilibrium, Lord of the Rings, Memento

Favourite food: Pizza.... and Pie. mmmmmmm pie.

Why did you choose your user name? It was the 10th "Darth" name I tried.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? A bit over 5 years

 

You got some nice girls back there Ki-Bara-Mundi

 

Name: Kerryn

State/country: Queensland, Australia

Age: 24

Occupation: Internet Developer/Designer

Marital status: Not married

Physical description: 5'9, long dark hair.

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: The Dish, Chopper, Nightmare Before Christmas... a lot of others I'm probably forgetting.

Favourite food: Indian with a good lager.

Why did you choose your user name? Bit of a Tolkien fan; plus it just rolls off your tongue.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? A while.

 

Name: Sean...or 'Kitty'...or 'Splodey'...or 'Deton'...

State/country: NSW, Australia

Age: 17

Occupation: Checkout Chick

Marital status: Single

Physical description: Around 6 foot...I think.

Favourite SW movie: Return of the Jedi, but they all have their advantages. Except for the little Menace. I mostly disliked that one.

Favourite non-SW movie: American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, Road to Perdition, Adaptation, Terminator 2, LotR: Fellowship, No Man's Land...etc.

Favourite food: Normally most things with chicken...pizza, pasta, anything alcoholic...

Why did you choose your user name? Originally I was Exploding_Chicken (hence the nickname 'Splodey'), but then I forgot the password and chose another animal that would explode well...yeah...That coupled with the fact I couldn't think of anything better at the time.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? Bloody ages.

 

Name: Darren

State/country: Victoria, Australia

Age: 36

Occupation: Technical Specialist

Marital status: Not married

Physical description: 5'9, long dark hair.

Here's me on a dark and scary night
darren.maxwell.net

Favourite SW movie: ANH

Favourite non-SW movie: Dune, Contact, Most B-Grade SF films from before the 60s, Star Trek films, Batman movies and heaps of others

Favourite food: Chocolate, pasta, pizza.

Why did you choose your user name? It's a variation of Darren (as I can't stand being called Daz)

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? Since 1977. Also, co-founder of Star Walking Inc "The Star Wars Appreciation Society of Australia" in 1988 which of course is still going strong.

 

Name: Sara

State/country: Sydney, AU

Age: 22

Occupation: Student

Marital status: Unmarried, not single.

Physical description: Umm, 5ft 9", blue eyes, red hair.

Favourite SW movie: A New Hope

Favourite non-SW movie: Ghostbusters, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Spirited Away, Goonies, Princess Bride, Willow, Aliens, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Il Postino. I'm sure there's more.

Favourite food: Hot potato chips, mangoes, cherries, ice-cream, chocolate, tabouli.

Why did you choose your user name? I can't remember.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? Since I was a little girl.

 

Darn you FF Oceania-ers having a dedicated FF.

FF Maryland just sucks, but you guys are a true community.

I envy you guys.

 

Name: Michael Jeffrey Potts.

State/country: Northern Territory, Australia.

Age: 26.

Occupation: Retail (K-Mart).

Marital status: Single.

Physical description: 6 foot tall, medium build, brown hair & eyes, and slowly getting a tan due to the Darwin weather.

Favourite SW movie: Episode III

Favourite non-SW movie: Too many to name! (My DVD collection is now up to about 124 movies).

Favourite food: Italian, Mexican, BBQ.

Why did you choose your user name? I 'Gather' information, especially Star Wars continuity (for Timetales)... I guess I would be like the EU Character Talon Karrde.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? All my life.

Favourite band: Pearl Jam.

 

Name: Wayne
State/country: NSW, Australia

Age: 33

Occupation: Fire Safety Officer

Marital status: Married 2 beautiful daughters Madison 3 and Samantha 2

Physical description: About 177cm
short red hair, brown eyes,

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: Fast and the Furious.

Favourite food: Chicken and salad

Why did you choose your user name?
It is my 501st Legion I.D. number

How long have you been a Star Wars fan?
Since 1977

 

Name: Sal

State/country: West Aust

Age: 21 (man, it's weird putting that after practically only just turning 21)

Occupation: Attempting to take over the world/student

Marital status: Engaged

Physical description: Umm... Some height, brown/blonde/red/whatever colour my hair decides it is, blue eyes, not thin.

Favourite SW movie: Empire probably

Favourite non-SW movie: The Crow, Hackers, Short Circuit, Monsters Inc, Empire Records, the list goes on...

Favourite food: Chocolate, coated in chocolate, with chocolate sprinkles and chocolate topping.

Why did you choose your user name? Back in the IRC days I got bored of my old nickname and asked a few friends if they could come up with a decent nick for me. This is what they chose and it's stuck for many years now.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? I'm not really that much of a fan at all. I appreciate the movies, but I'm not really a fan of them. I just made friends here and stayed... (don't hurt me).

 

Name: Tony

State/country: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Age: 34

Occupation: Computer Operator

Marital status: Married with 1 beautiful little girl, Emily.

Physical description: About 175cm tall, light brown hair, which is going slightly grey (much too quickly for my liking), Green/Grey eyes (they seem to change colour).

Favourite SW movie: A New Hope.

Favourite non-SW movie: LOTR, The Matrix, Indy Jones Trilogy, Dances with Wolves, Blade Runner,Braveheart just to mention a few.

Favourite food: Italian foods.

Why did you choose your user name? the one I originally wanted was taken and I just came up with this one.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan?Since 1977, I'm one of the very few who saw the Original SW in an actual theatre when it was first released.

Ok, here's a question we can add on.

What is your favourite Soundtrack? For me it would have to be Star Wars: A New Hope Special Edition by John Williams closesly followed by The Empire Strikes Back Special Edition.

Hw about each person add a question as we go. Just a thought!

 

Great idea, m-m. Say, ever thought about being a mod?

 

A Mod me??

No thank you, besides I'm not online enough. At least not until I get a better PC and Connection at home.

 

Name: Andrew

State/country: Sydney, Australia

Age: 23 - Nearly 24 (****!)

Occupation: Student - applying for AFP

Marital status: Unmarried, sort of not single - see PoT's answer!

Physical description: I'm 187cms tall, athletic build, broad shouldered, with blue eyes, and short brown (ex-blonde) hair. Some say I look like a cross between Jude Law and Tim Robbins, though I can't fathom such an unholy union!

Favourite SW movie: Empire Strikes Back

Favourite non-SW movie: Either Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or Lawrence of Arabia.

Favourite food: Mexican, albeit REAL Mexican cooked by actual Mexicans.

Why did you choose your user name? Well, I've always been Ajay (even offline, just ask Syrix!)online, but it was taken here. I'd just played Baldur's Gate again on PC, and there's a thief called Ender Sai at one point. Thus, i chose that.

How long have you been a Star Wars fan? About 20 or so years now! I grew up on this stuff, you n00bs!

What's your favourite soundtrack?: Wow, good question. Probably Human Traffic or Run, Lola, Run!

And, keeping with m_m's suggestion:

Who is your all time favourite superhero or fictional character?

Superman. Come on guys, I'm a child of the 80's!!!

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